Timewatch · SEASON 12
The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire
Episode 2 · 1993-01-27
- Documentary
Episode overview
Examines the origins of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals startling new evidence of the Irish government's crucial role in the emergence of the Provisional IRA. With the help of interviews with Irish ex-cabinet ministers and former leading members of the Republican movement, it details Dublin's funding of the IRA, why it favoured its more radical elements, and how the Irish government secretly plotted to invade Northern Ireland in 1970. Peter Taylor reports.
50 minutes
Season 12 episodes
1. Allied to the Mafia1993-01-13
2. The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire1993-01-27
3. The Stolen Child1993-02-10
4. The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover1993-02-24
5. The Pill: Prescription for Revolution1993-03-10
6. Buffalo Bill1993-03-24
7. Special: Battle of the Bombers1993-04-07
8. On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging1993-06-02
9. True Story of the Roman Arena1993-09-15
10. The Mother of All Battles1993-09-29
11. Hunger Strike: A Hidden History1993-10-13
12. Children of the Third Reich1993-11-10
13. The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald1993-11-21
14. Chairman Mao the Last Emperor1993-12-20
